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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 133 | New Coaching Staff, Boselli as EVP of Football Ops & More · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: And welcome in.
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  Speaker 2: It is Jaggs am j P. Shadrick in for Kai Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be back with us next week. Brian Sexton and
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  Speaker 2: John Osier coming up. Oh, it's been a quiet few
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: dead weeks around the organization.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. Let's get right into the big things.
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  Speaker 2: Starting with head coach Liam Cohen announced by owner Shodkom.
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  Speaker 3: When we interview ten remarkable candidates for the positions, two
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  Speaker 3: things became clear to me. Number one that this wasn't
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: a moment of regret for the Jacksonville Jaguars. This was
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  Speaker 3: a moment of progress, optimism and confidence. We will achieve
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  Speaker 3: the ultimate goal as long as we have the right man.
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  Speaker 3: And number two, that man was Liam Cohen.
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  Speaker 2: Well here from Liam Cohen coming up, Brian Sexton. But boy,
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  Speaker 2: what a whirlwind it was after the first round of interviews,
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  Speaker 2: a change in the GM spot.
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  Speaker 1: But they got their man and Liam Cohen they.
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  Speaker 4: Did, and it felt like they didn't crack the glass
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  Speaker 4: ceiling or go through the glass ceiling. It felt like
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  Speaker 4: they shattered it. That they blew it up. John. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they had had a clean sweep with a general manager
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  Speaker 4: and a coach both coming in at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: since since Dave Caldwell and Guss in twenty thirteen. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know where to go with this one
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  Speaker 4: other than I look at this coach differently than a
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  Speaker 4: lot because this is what I like to call that
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  Speaker 4: hedge fund coach, the data driven, super aggressive, turn conventional
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  Speaker 4: wisdom on their ear, kind of young coach that the
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  Speaker 4: Jaguars really have never had. Not to say that he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have some old school coach and him his father
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  Speaker 4: was a coach, But this guy short of breaks the
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  Speaker 4: paradigm that the Draguars have had yet.
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  Speaker 5: I think what I like is to your point, Brian,
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  Speaker 5: he looks new school in the sense that he's young
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  Speaker 5: and he's got that energy. But when he talks football,
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  Speaker 5: he talks old school. He talks the running game, he
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  Speaker 5: talks to the lines. I was kind of laughing during
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  Speaker 5: that week when they lead up to hire Cone JP,
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  Speaker 5: because everybody was all worried about this day and the
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  Speaker 5: Bucks and all this stuff, Get your guy. And two
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  Speaker 5: weeks later, is anybody even really talking about that stuff
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  Speaker 5: that went on. No, they're talking about the Jaguars getting
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  Speaker 5: their guy and they're moving on. So all that stuff
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  Speaker 5: is very much in the past. The future is Liam
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  Speaker 5: Cohene and there's a lot here to be excited about,
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  Speaker 5: and we'll see where that excitement takes us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, get to obviously a young guy, we've talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the youth movement on his staff coming
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit later as well.
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  Speaker 1: Big thing number.
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  Speaker 2: Two today, Tony Vaselli is the executive vice president of
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  Speaker 2: Football Operations.
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  Speaker 1: The announcement.
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  Speaker 6: Today Seagkhan made my dream come true and I'm ready
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  Speaker 6: to get to work. Next step is finding our general
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  Speaker 6: manager and that work is already underwinning.
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  Speaker 4: I was the first pick in franchise history. It's not
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  Speaker 4: just a job, it's my passion.
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  Speaker 6: And I am so excited to be a part of
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  Speaker 6: the team that brings the first championship.
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  Speaker 2: To do all all right, John Oser Baselly is in
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  Speaker 2: the decision process.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be a great thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And all three of us know Tony, and I
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  Speaker 5: think what's cool about this is not only do we
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  Speaker 5: three know Tony. I think most Jaguars fans who watch
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  Speaker 5: the shows and who are uber passionate about it feel
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  Speaker 5: like they know Tony or they've probably met Tony, so
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  Speaker 5: they know what he's about but even beyond that, Brian,
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  Speaker 5: you know we're gonna talk so much about this.
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  Speaker 7: There's many points to get with Tony.
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  Speaker 5: But the guy they're hiring is not that guy you're
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  Speaker 5: seeing on the screen. Meaning there's a passion to him,
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  Speaker 5: and yes, that's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 7: But as much as I.
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  Speaker 5: Tease Tony, this is a sharp guy who knows how
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  Speaker 5: to communicate, who knows how to bridge build if you will.
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  Speaker 7: He has a vision. He can help Liam with that vision.
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  Speaker 5: And as much as Liam Conbrian, I'm excited about what
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  Speaker 5: Tony can bring in terms of the passion for the
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  Speaker 5: organization and helping Liam get his message across.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm excited about Liam Cohen. But there's some
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  Speaker 4: uncertainty there right a first time head coach, a young
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  Speaker 4: guy stepping into a new role. There's no uncertainty with
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  Speaker 4: Tony Boselli. He and I first started talking about him
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  Speaker 4: taking a bigger role in the organization when way we've
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  Speaker 4: ruled it right after he came back in two thousand
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  Speaker 4: and six, and he had to work over the last
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  Speaker 4: nineteen years through a variety of different functions, whether it
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  Speaker 4: was ticketing and public relations, the radio, television, stuff that
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  Speaker 4: he's done. I sent him a text message the morning
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  Speaker 4: that they announced it, saying, congratulations. Patience pays off for
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  Speaker 4: good people. This is a great person and he is
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  Speaker 4: going to do incredible things. I believe that to the
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  Speaker 4: very core of my being because a I know him
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  Speaker 4: and I know what he's about. But you can't help
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  Speaker 4: John and JP but feel his passion, his connection to
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  Speaker 4: this franchise which goes deeper than.
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  Speaker 2: Most and no more happy hour Monday. What in the
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  Speaker 2: world is that about? Number three on the Big Things today?
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  Speaker 2: Personnel departments next, DM interviews are underway as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: And we mentioned Lea and Colem. We'll hear from him
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: It takes organizational synergy at the top.
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  Speaker 1: Starts with communication.
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  Speaker 8: It starts with the alignment and communication at every level
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  Speaker 8: right building first and foremost the best staff that we
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  Speaker 8: can build, because it's like I mentioned, it's about these guys.
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  Speaker 8: So how do we put the best coaches in place
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  Speaker 8: to help these players reach their full abilities? Okay, now
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  Speaker 8: with the front office, how do we continue to build
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  Speaker 8: there and get this thing fully in alignment so that
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  Speaker 8: then when we go into the off season program we're
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  Speaker 8: all on the same page. We all understand the vision
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  Speaker 8: and the goal.
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  Speaker 4: Rian.
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  Speaker 2: He also referenced to building he was in out in
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  Speaker 2: LA with the RAMS and you just feel it it
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  Speaker 2: oozed out of that organization. Just everybody working together, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're going to be looking for next TM.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you think about the names, right, If people have
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  Speaker 4: asked me, what do you think of the names? It
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  Speaker 4: really doesn't matter, not that the person doesn't matter, but
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  Speaker 4: most people don't know the name less need. There's the
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  Speaker 4: GM out there in LA. We do here because he
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  Speaker 4: was here back in the early days. Who is the
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  Speaker 4: general manager that operated with Bill Belichick in New England.
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  Speaker 4: Most people can't tell you that. The various names, And
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  Speaker 4: of course in Kansas City you've got a GM that
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  Speaker 4: works with Andy Reid. That's the structure that's being build here.
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  Speaker 4: Someone is going to come in who's very qualified and
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  Speaker 4: work to build and bring the players to the table
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  Speaker 4: that Liam Colin wants. You want to talk about synergy,
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  Speaker 4: What better than to have a GM who works for
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  Speaker 4: the coach, who tells him exactly what he wants, and
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  Speaker 4: the GM goes to produce. I'm excited about the new structure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Shod has talked probably since the Urban Meyer higher
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  Speaker 5: of wanting an organization that's coach centric. I think it
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  Speaker 5: was therb of my hier, but it feels like about
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  Speaker 5: that long he's been working toward trying to get that
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  Speaker 5: in place. And I think what Tony and what Shad
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  Speaker 5: said when they were talking about the changes, these guys
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  Speaker 5: are here to support Liam Cohen's vision, and I think
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  Speaker 5: that is what Tony will excel at. It's hard, there's
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  Speaker 5: you're going to interview nine to ten guys for GM.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard to know what the detail that hire will
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  Speaker 5: because it hasn't happened yet. But I do believe that
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  Speaker 5: it will be somebody who's in lockstep with the organization
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  Speaker 5: and with what Coen and Vicelli want going forward. And
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  Speaker 5: I think we'll see in a couple of weeks talking
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  Speaker 5: about details of that movie.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, we are back in the Hyundai studios
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  Speaker 2: after a hiatus. We're back in a moment though with
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  Speaker 2: a look at that youth movement. You saw the staff,
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  Speaker 2: the coaching staff on the screen, the youth movement underneath
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  Speaker 2: Liam Cohen. That's next on jags Am.
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  Speaker 8: How do we want to play the game? And that's
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  Speaker 8: fast fundamentally sound, attacking, situational masters and tough both mentally
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  Speaker 8: and physically. You see players in the room right here,
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  Speaker 8: guys that I've had conversations with already. It will always
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  Speaker 8: be about you, always it is players over plays. How
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  Speaker 8: do we make this as much about the players and
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  Speaker 8: making this about bringing out the best in you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this is about.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, It's Jags Am Jaguars foot well presented by
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  Speaker 2: Fresh from Florida.
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  Speaker 1: It's always in season.
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  Speaker 2: JP Shadwick in for Kay Stevens, Bryan Sexson, John Osier
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  Speaker 2: with us and a lot of good things heard from
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  Speaker 2: the head coach and his opening press conference, the idea
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  Speaker 2: of being a fast team. He went through all the
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  Speaker 2: scenarios there, all about the players and.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of sets the tone.
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  Speaker 2: And then his next priority was, of course filling out
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  Speaker 2: his coaching staff, and he didn't spend too much time
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  Speaker 2: and they were thorough about it, but went through and
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  Speaker 2: got some guys in here quickly. But the youth movement continues. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Liam Cohen himself is thirty nine, defensive coordinators forty two,
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  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinators twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: I think the average age of the staff.
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  Speaker 2: Is like forty two and a half years old, and
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of the new era in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't know what the people realize, but
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  Speaker 4: the most important question in interviews in many cases isn't
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  Speaker 4: the style you're gonna run, it's who you're gonna bring. Right,
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  Speaker 4: one of the things that owners want to know is
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  Speaker 4: what is your staff going to look like? And clearly
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  Speaker 4: Shad impressed when he laid out what he wanted that young,
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  Speaker 4: aggressive mindset, not anchored to Well, this guy has been
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven years in the league and he's coached this,
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  Speaker 4: there and there. He has built a staff of idea
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  Speaker 4: guys that fit the ideas that he wants to bring.
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  Speaker 5: Look, there's a movement in the NFL lately to go
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  Speaker 5: younger coaches, and I think what caused a little bit
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  Speaker 5: is the coaches know who they want.
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  Speaker 4: They they know.
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  Speaker 5: Who's going to be a good coach. Meaning these guys
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  Speaker 5: talk and it Grant Yudinsky, everybody in Minnesota, everybody around
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  Speaker 5: the league knows that this guy at some point very
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  Speaker 5: soon might be the next Sean McVay, right, might be
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  Speaker 5: the guy who's going to get a job when he's
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  Speaker 5: thirty three or thirty four. That's the feeling on the guy.
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  Speaker 5: Same with Anthony Campanio the defensive coordinator, Same with Liam
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  Speaker 5: Cohne to a point, so if you know these guys
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  Speaker 5: are on that track, you better hire him when you can,
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  Speaker 5: because I don't think Sean wants to hire a new
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  Speaker 5: coach next year to go hire these guys when you're
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  Speaker 5: a year older. So I think they wanted to get
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  Speaker 5: these talented guys here in the building, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 5: about him. I'm particularly excited to meet Grant Yadinsky. I
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  Speaker 5: don't care that he's twenty nine. Everything you hear about
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  Speaker 5: him is that he is next level in terms of organization, motivation,
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  Speaker 5: all those things. I like the feel of this staff,
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  Speaker 5: mainly because when I talked to Anthony Campaneely, he said,
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: basically play calling all that stuff. He said, everything else
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  Speaker 5: is bs. It's about the players, dude. I love that Brian.
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  Speaker 4: That's the old school side of him. I had more
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  Speaker 4: high school football coaches that I have relationships with here.
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  Speaker 4: Ask me if I could get an introduction to campanilely
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  Speaker 4: because he's a legend and his brothers are legends in
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey in the Catholic high school league up there.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, he has gone and found guys that
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  Speaker 4: are both young and aggressive. And I think one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that's so appealing to about this, right the quarterback,
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: the cap situation, the draft picks the facility. The owner
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: is the coach, right, Not every coach can attract the staff.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly like this, bright and young, young, strong.
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  Speaker 2: First impressions matter though, so the first time they're in
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  Speaker 2: front of the football team, it whether it's defense, offense,
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  Speaker 2: whatever side of the ball you want to go to. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we find out after the fact later that
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  Speaker 2: some of those early interactions of the previous regime, especially
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: on the defensive side, well that that didn't go so well.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of carried over.
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  Speaker 5: John, here's what matters as much as that players just
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: like us. You know, if if we had a new boss,
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  Speaker 5: what's the first thing we would do. I'd be texting
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  Speaker 5: somebody who knows this guy and say, Hey, what's going
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  Speaker 5: on here?
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  Speaker 7: What do we got?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 5: My understanding is when players were texting around about these guys,
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  Speaker 5: the response was you're gonna let these guys, And that
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  Speaker 5: is what matters because other players know these are guys
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  Speaker 5: you want to follow, These are guys you want to
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  Speaker 5: be around. These guys are gonna treat you well. I'm
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  Speaker 5: optimistic about that, and I think the players are too.
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  Speaker 5: Once they get in front of the room, you got
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  Speaker 5: to command the room and all that. In the end, Brian,
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  Speaker 5: this is a two.
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  Speaker 7: Notch question to me.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Liam and a Campanella find he's gonna do what
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 7: I like the guy who met him. Can you Dnsky
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  Speaker 7: and Co? And get two more notches out of Trevor?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: If that's the case, they could be named it. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: they could be eight years old. I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, listen, that's the question, right. You can talk
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  Speaker 4: about the scheme and listen. What Campanilli is going to
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  Speaker 4: bring with him is some of the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 4: scheme last year. And if you talked to Jeff Loghman
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  Speaker 4: and Tony Bucelli about that scheme, they said on game
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  Speaker 4: day this is a really good scheme, of really player
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  Speaker 4: specific scheme. So I'm excited about that. However, this whole
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  Speaker 4: thing rests on Liam Cohen getting the most out of
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  Speaker 4: the franchise quarterback. That's the key to success on Sundays,
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  Speaker 4: That's the key to the franchise rising to the level
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  Speaker 4: that this owner has desired it to be since he
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  Speaker 4: bought it. Now is the time you can't waste any more.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to get this quarterback to plague to his
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  Speaker 4: potential to be his best. And the thought is that
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  Speaker 4: this coaching staff's going to get there.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the key to the Yudansky higher. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he's not gonna call plays. But in Minnesota, this was
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  Speaker 5: the guy that young quarterbacks went to.
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  Speaker 7: JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 5: There's a story in the Minnesota newspaper that I quote
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  Speaker 5: you when I was writing about this. He would call
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  Speaker 5: he would texted offense the coordinator, like eleven o'clock at
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  Speaker 5: night and he got to go, hey, text Grant.
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  Speaker 7: Right. So, this is a twenty eight year old kid at.
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  Speaker 5: The time that his master of these things was such
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  Speaker 5: that the coaches trusted him with the young guy. The
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  Speaker 5: young guys gravitated to him.
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  Speaker 7: That relationship with Trevor. I think it's gonna be fascinating
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  Speaker 7: to wat.
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  Speaker 4: When Sam Darnold had the best year of his career,
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  Speaker 4: you can't ever look at her.
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  Speaker 5: Right Baker Mayfield as well, So that if those guys
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  Speaker 5: get that out of this guy, whoa that's the storyline.
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  Speaker 2: Of me, well, who's the youngest coach with a statue
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  Speaker 2: out front? I wonder you know that that's the question
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  Speaker 2: we should be asking here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if they get those two notches, who knows we
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  Speaker 1: may be talking about that. Let's come back in a moment. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a busy month for Jaguars players as well,
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  Speaker 2: some guys heading out of the Pro Bowl and a
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: huge honor for a Jaguars defensive blind man. That's coming
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: up next, it's jaggs AA.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Attention music fans.
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  Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five season Daily's play starts this month.
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  Speaker 2: Getting ready for Rod Stewart, the Korrie for band, Teddy Swims,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: April Levine, Shouldnaia Twain, and much more.
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  Speaker 1: And we're just getting started.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't I as coming John and Roll? Fantastic?
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  Speaker 4: What did you just make that up on line?
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  Speaker 7: I did not.
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  Speaker 5: I was actually bag of my Episcol high school today.
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  Speaker 5: I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 7: The girls were crazy about Rod Stewart and.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody had written on a little lot of whiteboard Rod
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  Speaker 5: Stewart rad Rod.
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  Speaker 4: Rules rock and Roll.
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  Speaker 7: I remembered all these years later some reason. Now I
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  Speaker 7: was second.
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  Speaker 4: My month just rolled off.
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  Speaker 2: It's a heck of a show. I'll say that he
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  Speaker 2: was here, what he's been here the last few years.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't be in my generation and not have
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: enjoyed a Rod Stewart's song every now.
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  Speaker 2: It has been a busy month for Jaguars players. A
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: few guys to the Pro Bowl, of course, the specialist
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: logan cook Russ mattisic along snapper sent to Orlando in
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the initial vote, and then the first alternate wide receiver
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior got the knot as well. Guys, And
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: you know, you can argue he should have been voted
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  Speaker 2: in to begin with, but rookie tough to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But he got his honors and made it a splash
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: and impact in the Pro Bowl games. A couple of
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: scores if you're into that. But it was good to
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  Speaker 2: see him in that spotlight.
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  Speaker 4: Watching him at the Pro Bowl. I did watch it.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing they got him at twenty three. Yeah, it's
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: amazing that they moved back twice and they added a
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: couple of picks and got him at twenty three. It
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: still star It just blows my mind that a talent
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: like that slid through because I he did so much
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: with Mac Jones, and Mac Jones doesn't have the arm
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: strength or the accuracy of a Trevor Lawrence. And you
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: look at the numbers that he put up this year, Fellas,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: and you would think that if he had been with
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence all season long, those numbers might have been
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: much more significant. Nothing against Mac, it's just that Mac
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: doesn't have that skill set like Trevor does.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Pro Bowl alternate so to speak, We've all knew this
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: a long time. Sometimes guys get the.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Pro boll alternate like well, like a pro all deal.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: He's never going again, or or it's like the third guy,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: and sometimes pro bo alternate fixes and rights are wrong.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: This was the case of the Ladder. I'm glad for
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: his sake.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: That he got to go, because he deserved to go.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Nobody down there was looking around, going what's this guy
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: doing the Pro Bowl. It was like, oh, welcome, come
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: in join the club. Here, here's your room for the
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: next six years.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: By the way, because this kid's special.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: And also a shout out to Logan Cooking and I
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Ross because they are guys.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: Everybody with the Jaguars.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Who went deserved it this year, and it's good that
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: they will have that next to their name and the media.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Guys, remember they didn't throw the football to them the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: first half of the season, so you mean think about that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: All that stuff was at the end. Yeah, everybody and
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: their brother knew where the football was going. Then NFL
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Honors came along just before the Super Bowl and Eric Armstead,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Jaguars defensive lineman, named the Walter Payton NFL Man of
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the Year's second Jaguar to receive the honor, Kalayis Campbell
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Eric Armstead has it for his work in the community,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: certainly earlier in his career in the Bay Area, but
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: now he's brought that over to Jacksonville as well.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: This might not mean a lot to folks, but you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: when Kalayis got the honor, right, the player who wins
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: it gets to wear a little patch on their uniform.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: And I was sad that they had traded him because
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: that went to a purple uniform in Baltimore. I really
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: wanted to see that on the teal right. The Jaguars
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: have always going back to Missus Weaver in the early
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: days placed a huge emphasis on their players being involved
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: in the community. This being a smaller city where players
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: could be touched and they could be heard from and
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: you could see them and feel their presence. There was
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: always an emphasis on getting a Jaguar to be the
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Walter Payton Man of the Year. And we've had some
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: very good candidates, they just didn't win the award. Well
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: for the first time, now you got a guy who
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: won it four times in San Francisco and came here
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: and was our nominee for it, and now we'll finally
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: see it. It means a little something to me to see
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: that on teal and I'm excited.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Look, the season didn't work out nearly on the field
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: the way that Eric Armstader or the Jaguars wanted it,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: and a lot of fans there's always but Eric Armstair. Look,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: whatever that was, it's a clean slate now moving forward
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: for him. But whatever that was, it doesn't diminish from
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: this award. This is a big deal, and as Brian said,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: it's something where the league in the last fifteen years
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: or so has really made it their premium. There's the
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: MVP and then there's the Man of the Year ord
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: The Man of the Year award for the players who
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: get it, you could argue means as much or more
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: because it is somewhat of a lifetime career. You don't
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: get the Walter Payton Mann of the Year by having
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: one good year in the community. It's it's a lifetime
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: and Peyton Manning won when I was in Indy he
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: had built a hospital, right or so it's that level
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: of community involvement that Eric has Clay has had. So
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: it's a big deal and it says some It says
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: a lot.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: About the guys who get it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Listen, just a personal appeal here, right. We don't have
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: a trophy case. Right, We've got four division titles in
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: franchise history, but they don't give you a trophy for that.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: We've never won the AFC, so there's no trophy for that,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: and obviously not the Lombardi. This is a trophy he
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: held it up. I'd like to see the Jaguars prominently
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: feature that trophy. Even though the stadium is gonna be
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: under construction, there's not going to be a lot of
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: people walking through there. There will be staff there. I'd
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: love to see that trophy prominently featured in that front case,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: so that everyone can understand the importance of the Walter
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Payton Man of the your award.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Shirts and hats, Brian shirts and hats, and I.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Mean, listen, that's great. I've got all these shirts and hats,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: but this is an honest to good trophy and I'd
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: like to see them do something with it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Brian likes trophy.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Who doesn't doesn't want to see trophy?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: We would have it right here on the table.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: That's what would happened, hight Let's come back in a moment.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: GM interviews are ahead, and our final thoughts right after
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• 22:10
  Speaker 2: It's Jack's am JP Shaddick in for Kay Stevens pried Sex.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: First, So in a while, let's go John. It is
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the first est, it is the first stet okay. GM
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: interviews underway.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: They started this week officially, and you know, mister con
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: said during the press conference for Liam Cole and he
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: was asked, Hey, what's the kind of deadline you're looking
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: at here for the GM. He said, well, league imposed
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: mainly of February twenty eighth. This is kind of the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: real true deadline that the league would like. So it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: feels like, yeah, the next couple of weeks, this should get.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Done well to get people a little, you know, behind
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the scenes, you don't. Generally you may bring the new
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: GM in, but you're not going to change out your
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: scouting staff. That generally happens after the draft is when
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: the new GM will make changes. So you've got a
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: group here that's working to build the free agent board
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: to work on the draft. You've got a cap team
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: that's in place, and Tony Boselli is obviously you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: managing that until someone gets in so you're not falling behind.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: You might as well take the time to find the
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: absolute perfect fit, the guy who Liam Cohen fits best with,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: who Tony Bisselli fits best with, so that when you
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: come in he hits the ground running. I mean it'll
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: be boom like that in a matter of weeks, all
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: of a sudden, you know, you get the start of
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: the new league year and the draft and make sure
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: you do it right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a really fast turnaround for the GM because
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: I figure interviews this week second interviews next week, so
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: they're probably near the end of that next week or
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: right at the beginning and the next as we're going
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: to the combine.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you get a new GM.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: It's two weeks in the league year, so he will
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: literally come in and be assisting Liam Cohene and Bisselli
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: with those early decisions in free agency. I would expect
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: the vision to have to be very much in place
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: by the time that happens.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that, John, two weeks to the NFL scouting
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: combine in Indianapolis.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Yes, it is once a year.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it should always be an Indianapolis in my opinion,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: agree more.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Here we go. It's gonna be a busy combine, John.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: With new coach, new GM, new EVP, all the things
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: in play.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's gonna be newsworthy and the new direction
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: of the Jaguars will be on display.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: So I'm looking forward to We got one more Uh,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: we have one more show to do here.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: This whole off season might seem like a blur. It's
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: gonna go so fast. There's so much that has to
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: be done. There's so many stories for us to tell, right,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: new coaches, new general manager, The Pacelli story, before you
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: know it, it's gonna seem like training camp is just
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: getting started. And I am one who thinks they can
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: turn this thing around fast. So we're gonna have a
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: fast offseason to hopefully a fast turnaround in the season.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And by the way, the off season program starts earlier now,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: two weeks earlier, April seventh.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: The players can come in.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I think an extra mini camp too.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I think it's voluntary.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I think all that stuff.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: All that stuff, so a lot to be done. We're
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: back though. Great to be with you guys.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yea, it's good to see you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having great day today.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Jack.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Let's it's John Hosier, Brian Sexton. I'm J. P. Shadrick.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you for watching jags An.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Yes,